NASA plans to launch Artemis II, a four‑astronaut, 10‑day Orion test flight to lunar orbit from Kennedy Space Center targeted for the first week of April, weather and prelaunch checks permitting.
Artemis II's main objective is to validate the Orion spacecraft on a near‑lunar mission that will reach roughly 4,000 miles above the Moon's far side and does not include a lunar landing.
Reid Wiseman serves as mission commander; he has logged 165 days in space and recently served as NASA's chief of the Astronaut Office, and Victor Glover is the Orion pilot.
Tickets for onsite viewing are sold out, but NASA will livestream the launch on YouTube, offer watch‑party updates, and provide tracking via the Artemis Real‑time Orbit Website (AROW); April launch windows last two hours and the rocket is already on the pad pending final checks.
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